/*
 * Copyright 2012 Faculty of Informatics - Masaryk University.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */
package cz.muni.fi.pa165.creatures.rest.backend.utils;

import cz.muni.fi.pa165.creatures.dto.AbstractDTO;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * This interface build a DTO from a {@link java.io.InputStream}.
 *
 * @author smikloso
 */
public interface DTOBuilder<T extends AbstractDTO> {

    /**
     * Build a DTO from an {@link java.io.InputStream}.
     *
     * @param is stream to get data to parse from
     * @return parsed DTO
     * @throws ParserConfigurationException
     * @throws SAXException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    T build(InputStream is)
            throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException;
}
